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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Montgomery part 2 – Civil rights and the end of the road
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The previous post ended with my rather unfulfilling stop at Martin Luther King, Junior’s house but I had to move along so I walked a few blocks past Alabama’s state capitol building to reach the National Civil Rights Memorial and …
Montgomery: Fitzgeralds and King
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For most of the day, I’d be an hour early. I left New Orleans as I’d hoped just a few minutes before the clock struck 07:00 Thursday and, for the first time in nearly three weeks, most of my driving …
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Small and Hard in the Big Easy – part 2
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It’s time to head back to New Orleans and for my return to the city, I stayed on the west side of the river taking mostly a straight shot up Highway 23. But here’s where one of my choices became …
Small and hard in the Big Easy
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When I finished yesterday’s post, I was wending my way through heavy traffic in Baton Rouge on my way to New Orleans. Since nearly every reference I’ve made thus far about my GPS has been negative let me praise it …
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Vicksburg to NOLA – A ruin, a mound, and the Day the War Stopped
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As the crow flies, the Windsor Ruins are about 12 miles from Port Gibson. By the Natchez Trace, the drive is about twice as far. The Natchez Trace Parkway begins (or ends) in Fairview, Tennessee (near Nashville) and ends (or …